Motivating the Team
Keeping people who work in the maritime and offshore oil and gas industries motivated can be a challenge – we propose the solution is good supervision, recognition and a commitment to professional development.
Pilot Technician Grade II Grade Assessment: How to Download the Updated Competence Documents
Identifying and planning the three Activities for your Grade Assessment can be difficult at first. To help you understand the breakdown and what we are looking for in your plan, we have put together some examples of different graded Grade Assessments.
MTCS Strengthens Industry Leadership with CPD Accreditation
MTCS has achieved Continuing Professional Development (CPD) accreditation for a range of its industry-recognised training and assessment programmes. The accreditation applies to MTCS’s ROV and AUV Grade Assessments, Skills Assessor programme, and Team Leadership for the Offshore Industry course.
What Makes a Team?
Genuinely effective teams are rarely created by accident – strong teams are built deliberately through leadership, communication, shared standards and mutual trust.
Team leadership training offshore
Team Leadership Training for Offshore Supervisors: What the Course Covers and Who It Is For Stepping into a leadership role offshore brings new pressures. You are no longer only responsible for your own competence. You are responsible for guiding a team, keeping standards high, and making decisions that affect everyone around you. What does the…
What a contracting company should expect from a Certificate of Competence
It is important that contracting companies appreciate the process by which the Certificate has been awarded and to question the individual at interview stage on the background to them achieving their Certificate.
What Is an Approved Witness in an MTCS Competence Assessment?
An Approved Witness is a person with technical authority in a relevant discipline who can observe, verify, and sign evidence of a candidate’s competence in the workplace. In an MTCS competence assessment, Witnesses play a critical role, particularly when a qualified Skills Assessor is not available at the worksite. Understanding what this role involves, and…
Does Training Make You Competent Offshore?
Does Training Make You Competent Offshore? If you work offshore and have asked whether completing a training course makes you competent in your role, you are asking exactly the right question. Does training make you competent offshore? The short answer is no. Training is a vital step, but it does not make you competent on…
Retrospective Assessment
When working offshore, it’s not always practical or possible to assess a Candidate ‘in the moment’ as the working environment and the tasks being undertaken can make it virtually impossible.
Why are MTCS Certificates of Competence valid for only 3 years?
A question which has, understandably, been asked of MTCS on a number of occasions is regarding the length of time that a certificate of competence is valid for.